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the last sofa: 08/2011
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Monday, 29 August 2011. Did in a really interesting way with ' put down a book week. I recently came across a. N interview by Henry Jenkins with Sherry Turkle. On her new book, Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. I haven't read the book yet, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this obviously critical edge plays out, but here is a nice extract on 'addiction', from that interview:. Posted by brady jay. Wednesday, 10 August 2011. Posted by brady jay. Buy the sofa, ...
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the last sofa: 04/2011
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Friday, 15 April 2011. So my last website design was a bit rubbish. I built it from scratch with my childhood HTML skills, but it just wasn't cutting it. So I dived into WordPress, wrangled with some MySQL database issues and finally figured out some permissions errors. Tada. Posted by brady jay. Young people, space and conventions. Have a look at this little champion ( iTr3vor. Letting loose in an Apple store to a bit of Gaga. Or, would he be asked to leave if he was a bit older? Posted by brady jay.
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the last sofa: social network sites and belonging for young 'at risk' Australians
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Friday, 27 April 2012. Social network sites and belonging for young 'at risk' Australians. Peak body for youth homelessness in Australia) have published an essay I wrote. For them as a blog. Not 100% suitable as a blog post (was written as an essay for their old journal), but the argument is the same. Posted by brady jay. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You buy furniture, you tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Palahniuk 1996: 44 - Fight Club). That the writing here is o...
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the last sofa: 01/2012
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012. I'm coming to the end of my one year full-time contract at Griffith now (filling in for Dr B. While she was on research leave) and I'm heading back in to life as a sessional while I finish off my PhD. It was a busy year with its ups and downs, where I tried to develop my profile in a few areas for the job hunt ahead. In Social Sciences in Aus, it was a great pleasure to use the new textbook 'Think Sociology'. Which I collaborated on with Dr B. I've met and built relationships w...
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the last sofa: 04/2012
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Friday, 27 April 2012. Social network sites and belonging for young 'at risk' Australians. Peak body for youth homelessness in Australia) have published an essay I wrote. For them as a blog. Not 100% suitable as a blog post (was written as an essay for their old journal), but the argument is the same. Posted by brady jay. Wednesday, 4 April 2012. The value of reviewing academic monographs. I came across this article via the twitters today, titled ' Why Bother Writing Book Reviews? The author, Rachel Toor.
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the last sofa: Mediated Youth Culutres
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Tuesday, 3 July 2012. I meant to post this at the end of May when this was first released, but better late than never! The special issue of. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. That I have been working on with my supervisor, Andy Bennett, is now online. This issue brings together 13 articles that make visible an international and cross-disciplinary research agenda concerned with mediated youth cultures:. 8216;Connect and create’: Young people, YouTube and Graffiti communities". The Internet...
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the last sofa: you have mail!
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Monday, 13 June 2011. I got some nice things in the mail this week. A hard copy the journal Sociology. Which includes an article I wrote with my supervisor Andy Bennett, ' MyTribe: Postsubcultural manifestations of belonging on social network sites. And an advanced copy of the introductory sociology textbook I've been working on, Think Sociology,. Published by Pearson Australia. Progress! Posted by brady jay. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Palahniuk 1996: 44 - Fight Club). At the same time, though, ...
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the last sofa: internet addiction
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Monday, 29 August 2011. Did in a really interesting way with ' put down a book week. I recently came across a. N interview by Henry Jenkins with Sherry Turkle. On her new book, Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. I haven't read the book yet, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this obviously critical edge plays out, but here is a nice extract on 'addiction', from that interview:. Posted by brady jay. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). At the same time, though, ...
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the last sofa: PhD conferred!
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Friday, 4 January 2013. My PhD was officially conferred in November 2012, but I've been very slack in blogging about it, and have been working full-time during the day, and at nights, on weekends and in my spare time I've been celebrating, attending conferences. Putting the finishing touches on a forthcoming article. Which is a bit more grown up (professional? Than this blog, so no more posts here. And an extra page to add in my methodology to clarify part of my research design. So the actual revisio...
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the last sofa: doing nothing
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011. Inspired by a ' sociological experiment. By Nathan Palmer at Georgia Southern University in the States, Raphael. And I decided to do the same experiment with our first year sociology students today. These aren't great pictures - didn't want to use any where students were obviously identifiable - but you get the idea. See Palmer's documented experiment. For a much better record along with some student reactions and thoughts. Posted by brady jay. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
